Sunday, July 13, 2008

What Americans Believe

Do you agreed that many religions can lead to eternal life? Those responding “yes”:
  • Catholics – 79%
  • All Americans – 70%
  • Evangelical Christians – 57%

Is evolution the best explanation for the origins of human life?

  • All Americans - Yes 48%
  • Evangelicals – No 70%

The questions below show the results from everyone in the survey.

Would you considered yourself:

  • Conservative – 37%
  • Liberal – 20%
  • Moderate - 36%

Do you believe in an afterlife?

  • Yes – 74%

Do you believe in Heaven?

  • Yes – 74%

Do you believe in Hell?

  • Yes - 59%

Do you favor keeping abortion legal in all or most cases?

  • Yes – 51%
  • No – 43%

Of those who are unaffiliated with a church, 70% said the believe in God. More than half of those who called themselves agnostic said they believe in God.

Source: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought some of the most interesting (confusing?) findings in the study were about atheists:

-21% say they believe in God (8% are absolutely certain)
-12% believe in heaven and 10% believe in hell.
-10% pray atleast once a week.

I just don't understand. Seems like some of these beliefs go against the definition of athiesm.

(Source:
http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf
Pages 5,9,11,13)

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